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Vikings: power and cultural identities in the show of History Channel

https://doi.org/10.26441/RC17.1-2018-A3

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study from an anthropological perspective the formation of identities in the Canadian tv-series Vikings (2013- ), created by Michael Hirst for The History Channel. With this purpose, we use a textual methodology of the most relevant fragments. The discussion of the results is organized around one main core point that shape the construction of identities in this show: power.

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Vikings; TV-series; power; identity; ethnicity

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Mayte Donstrup es Personal Investigador en Formación (VI Plan Propio Universidad de Sevilla) en el Departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad. Miembro del grupo de investigación IDECO. Graduada en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas, con un máster en Comunicación y Cultura. mdonstrup@us.es, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6236-4967